NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I think my colleague from Arizona, Mr. Speaker, makes an excellent point. And I appreciate my colleague from Wisconsin…”

“I think my colleague from Arizona, Mr. Speaker, makes an excellent point. And I appreciate my colleague from Wisconsin for yielding some time as we talk about this, how we work through problems to solve them. The other thing we should note, Mr. Speaker, is that there is an achievable objective for success. And indeed, Mr. Speaker, what we have been able to do within this Chamber, Republicans and Democrats alike reaching across America, has said, when it comes to the dilemma of dealing with a self-perpetuating welfare state as we help people go from welfare to work, we now measure success not by the numbers of people who are on the welfare roles, but by the numbers of people who are out in gainful employment. Just this last Friday, in Mesa, Arizona, I had a chance to go in and work with a program. Initially, it was called Women Off Welfare, or WOW. Now they call it World of Work because nontraditional opportunities are opening up for women and men alike in our society. And the four people that were supposed to be there as part of the program, my colleagues, they could not be there to tell about what they have done because they were busy at work earning money for their families having a brighter future.”